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Setting up sticky sessions with SharePoint Protocol Support

This section describes how to configure sticky sessions in a high availability environment with the SharePoint Protocol Support embedded Jetty server.

The SharePoint Protocol Support module uses an embedded jetty server (running on port 7070) which receives the client's SharePoint Protocol requests and then communicates with the SkyVault services. When using a clustered environment (for example, two nodes with shared content) using a load balancer between the nodes and the clients, you should set sticky sessions for the SharePoint Protocol Support module.
  1. Open the SkyVault-global.properties file for each cluster node.
  2. Set the vti.server.sessionIdManager.workerName property for the VTI server. For example:

    For SkyVault node 1:

    vti.server.sessionIdManager.workerName=Alfresco1

    For SkyVault node 2:

    vti.server.sessionIdManager.workerName=Alfresco2

    Note: The workerName property does not support the character . (dot). For example, vti.server.sessionIdManager.workerName=SkyVault.com is not permitted.
  3. Configure the load balancer stickiness.

    For example, in apache 2.2 using mod_proxy and mod_proxy_balancer.

    # map to cluster with session affinity (sticky sessions) 
    ProxyPass /balancer ! 
    ProxyPass / balancer://my_cluster/ stickysession=VTISESSIONID nofailover=On 
    
    <Proxy balancer://my_cluster> 
        BalancerMember http://yourjetty1:7070 route=Alfresco1 
        BalancerMember http://yourjetty2:7070 route=Alfresco2 
    </Proxy>